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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

I Know That I Haven't Been On In Quite A While, I Have No Real Excuse.I Guess It Comes Down To The Point That, I Have Just Been "Blog Lazy." So, I Will Start Off In The Month Of October. In October, We Did School, Which Is No Big Surprise!! My Birthday Was Also In October. I Am An Official Teenager! WhooHoo!!! As Far As We Have Made It Into the month of November, My Mom Is Now The Big 40!! I Love School This Year, All But Algebra, I Just Started It This Year. Its Just A Little Harder Than I Expected!!! I Made My Moms, & My Birthday Cakes!!! I Hope Everyone Is Also Having A Good SchoolYear, May God Bless!!!

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Below Is Just Some Stuff I Found On Diffrent Websites... I Just Copied A Few And Put Them In This Post Hope You Enjoy!!Dolphins are mammals; this means that they nurse their babies
with milk from the mothers.Dolphins can swim up to 260 m. below the surface of the
ocean.Dolphins can stay up to 15 minutes under water, but they cannot
breath under the water.Dolphins use a technique called echolocation
to find food and navigate.Dolphins live in groups formed by 10 to 12
individuals.There are 36 different kinds of ocean dolphins and 5 species of
river dolphins.The largest dolphin is the “killer whale” (also known as
Orca).The most known dolphin is the “ bottlenose
dolphin”.Dolphins are warm-blooded.Dolphins communicate
through sounds and whistles.Dolphins eat fish and squid.

Dolphin Anatomy

Dolphins may live in the ocean, but they’re mammals that are fully adapted to
live in water.There are a number of adaptations that dolphins developed
during their creation living in water instead of on land. For instance, dolphins and
other cetaceans have no hair whatsoever, with the exception of a few follicles
on their lower jaws and snouts.Dolphin SensesProbably one of the most important difference
between land mammals and dolphins is the way they vocalize.

While most
mammals have a larynx or a similar structure that allows them to vocalize using
throat vibrations and exhaled air. Dolphins and other cetaceans are no
different; but they’re specially adapted to make extremely high-pitched sounds
used for echolocation as well as more human-pitched sounds used for ordinary
communication with others in their pod.In addition, dolphins have extremely sharp
hearing, and much better vision than one might expect of an animal that uses
echolocation as its primary means of sensing the world. Dolphins can see limited
colors, and even have limited binocular vision like a primate. They do not
possess much of a sense of smell, however.SwimmingOne of the most interesting differences between
cetaceans and fish is in their swimming method. Fish swim by wiggling left and
right, and if you watch crocodiles and snakes you’ll see the same motion. But
because dolphins were descended from mammals with a quite different skeletal
structure, they use up and down strokes to swim.Today you can still see some of the remnants of
terrestrial mammals in the dolphin’s skeletal structure. For instance, they have
forelimbs, but they’re adapted into flippers with shortened arm bones and no
fingers. Hind limbs can sometimes be found as vestigial skeletal remains, much
like tails can still be found vestigially on some humans. Most cetaceans,
including dolphins, still have a pelvis, which is entirely absent from
fish.Unlike other mammals, a dolphin’s hind quarters
are much, much more developed than its front musculature; the flippers are only
to steer, while the tail provides most of the force of motion. Dolphins have
also developed horizontal flukes on their tail to make propulsion more
efficient, and they’ve developed a dorsal fin just like fish. External parts
that get in the way of a dolphin’s streamlined shape, like the genitalia or the
ears, have been entirely lost, turning into internal organs instead.BreathingDolphins, like other mammals, breathe air
instead of water, and thus use lungs instead of gills. A dolphin that cannot
surface also cannot breathe, and thus will drown; this is why dolphins caught in
fishing nets are given such a poor chance of survival. Unlike most fish,
dolphins are very much creatures of the surface of the ocean.Like whales and other cetaceans, dolphins
respire through a blowhole in the tops of their heads, breathing in air when
they break the surface of the water. Unlike humans, dolphins do not breathe
reflexively; instead, they have to remember to breathe. An unconscious dolphin
is likely to be a dead dolphin. Though when actively swimming they must breathe
fairly often, dolphins can hold their breath for fifteen minutes or
more.

Dolphin Sound Diversity

Most people have heard the chirping,
squeaking noises made by dolphins which they use to communicate with dolphins
and human trainers, and to navigate by using echolocation, or figuring out where
things are by bouncing sound off them. Did you know dolphins can use their
echolocation to detect three-inch objects further away than the length of a
football field? Or that the possibility of true language exists, according to
the theories of some researchers?

Do Dolphins Have
Language?

Whether or not dolphins have language
is a matter for debate unless and until we humans figure out how to speak to
them. But evidence is mounting that dolphins may indeed have their own
language.Pods of dolphins in the
English Channel stay on their own side – the French-water dolphins on the France
side and the English-water dolphins on the England side – even though they are
of exactly the same species and might be expected to mingle more. Some
researchers say that this indicates not just language, but that two groups have
developed distinct language that can’t be understood by the
others.Whether you buy that or not,
there is a lot of research on dolphin vocabulary that indicates they communicate
with at least as much sophistication as the higher apes. They have a vocabulary
of danger sounds, food sounds, and seeking sounds, and sometimes put these
sounds together in a reasonably complex fashion. There is also evidence that
they may greet one another by name; specific sounds are only uttered when
meeting certain dolphins. Dolphins and Man-Made Sonardolphin
echolocation abilities are much superior to those of any man-made device. For
this reason, the US Navy have been studying them for years in order to improve
their own sonar. What they’ve found has been surprising.

Dolphins are incredibly good at
distinguishing their own echolocation sonar even in very noisy underwater
environments – and in fact are very good at locating the drift nets that
entangle and kill so many of them, raising the question of why they are still
often trapped in them. It has also been found, though, that some noisy locations
confuse dolphins, perhaps explaining why dolphins often ground themselves in
areas where Navy ships using active sonar are performing maneuvers. Could the
clumsier man-made sonar be using frequencies the dolphins associate with
something else? Or perhaps it’s like looking into a strobe light for them.
Whatever the explanation, the Navy is interested in eradicating the
problem.

Dolphin
Beaching

It’s the most tragic thing a dolphin
lover can see: a pod of dolphins that have apparently killed themselves by
swimming onto a beach and lodging themselves there. Why do dolphins do
this?

The most prominent theory currently is
that something confuses their echolocation, “blinding” them to the location of
the beach in relation to the open ocean. Since many beachings happen near
man-made sonar activity, it’s possible that this impacts them. Some very recent
autopsies of beached dolphin bodies show a very high percentage of damaged
hearing, suggesting that a very powerful sound somewhere may have basically
blown out their hearing. Dolphins see quite well, but without their ears they
are disoriented and blinded. And when one dolphin beaches itself, the others are
at risk because they will try to help him

However a beaching is initiated, it’s
likely that it has much to do with how a dolphin perceives sound. Hopefully,
we’ll soon understand enough about dolphin hearing to be able to prevent these
tragedies.

Dolphin Language and Communication

Dolphins are like the kid that won’t shut up.
They are almost constantly making sounds of one of two kinds: communicative or
navigational. The different sounds are made in different ways.

Echolocation sounds are produced in their nasal
passages just below their blowholes, and are called clicks. Clicks are sometimes
produced in such rapid succession that they sound like buzzes or even quacks,
and beamed forward from the dolphin’s head. These sounds are produced just
behind the melon, an oily, slightly off-center lump on what you’d call the
dolphin’s forehead, and the sound waves are focused forward through
it.

Scientists are not entirely certain how the
melon works, but it does seem to amplify and clarify the dolphin’s echolocation
sounds, and may play a part in collecting the sounds bouncing back. They allow a
dolphin to detect remarkably detailed information from the world around them. In
one test, a dolphin found a marble-sized sphere at more than the length of a
football field. Some scientists speculate that echolocation sounds may also be
used to deliver an acoustic shock to small prey.In the larynx, dolphins can produce high-pitched
whistles and squeals which can rapidly change pitch. Whistles are single tones,
with no vibrations that make them sound like buzzes. As far as scientists can
tell, the whistles are a form of communication with other dolphins, and squeals
are used to express alarm or sexual excitement.

There have been vast studies done on whether
dolphins communicate with language, some more reliable than others. Even major
researchers have made some pretty far-fetched claims with little scientific data
supporting their claims. On the other end, fisheries and others who depend on
the deaths of dolphins to support their livelihoods tend to downplay the
communication and intelligence of dolphins, sometimes equating them with
fish.

The truth, as in almost every case with extreme
opposing claims, lies somewhere in the middle. Dolphins are highly intelligent,
and have a greater brain-to-body-weight ratio (important in determining real
intelligence) than any other mammal besides homo sapiens. They have brain ratios
twice the size of any of the great apes, and are estimated to fall in
approximately the same category as australopithecines, early humanoid ancestors.
The appearance of the dolphin brain is also startlingly similar to that of a
human brain.

Like most other
animals, dolphins do have communication. Their squeals and whistles communicate
emotional states and, often, the presence of danger and food in the area. They
may also help them coordinate “herding” processes. Dolphin females often act as
“midwives” to new mothers, and every dolphin in the pod cares for the
others.

But do they communicate linguistically? There’s
some evidence for it. Dolphins tend to stay within their own pods, and may have
trouble understanding “foreign” dolphins. In studies done on dolphins near
Scotland, individuals appear to have names; or at least, other dolphins use
specific and unique whistles only in the presence of certain other dolphins, as
if calling them by name. Unlike any other animal besides humans, dolphins
exhibit a great tendency to take turns when vocalizing – making their
communications sound like a conversation.

There have also been very basic linguistic
studies of dolphin sound patterns. According to some studies, dolphin sounds
follow the same basic patterns of all human-based language, from Morse code to
Chinese. Though we cannot understand what they’re saying, it’s not beyond the
bounds to state that dolphins may indeed have language, though it’s certainly a
language unlike any we know today.

Dolphin Echolocation

Echolocation is a technique used by some animals to detect other animals,
food and obstacles.

As implied by its
name, this technique uses the echo, produced by a sound emitted by the animals
with this capability, to locate such objects.

Dolphins and some whales, besides some
other animals, like bats, have this ability.

Dolphin
Echolocation. Dolphins make a sound that travels quickly through water. The
sound is bounced back and the information decoded in the Dolphin
Melon.

The sound travels in the form of waves and when
it is bounced back by solid objects either in water or air, it is then detected
by the dolphin. This bouncing is called “echo” and it is the same as the voice
echo we hear in caves, but at a much precise level.

Animals with echolocation ability, are
capable to detect this echo when is deflected back by a solid
object.In the case of dolphins,
they emit a a beam of clicking sounds forward in the direction fo their head and
receive the echo from this sounds in the lower jaw.

This sophisticated system can calculate
the distance where an object is located because of the time taken by the echo to
return to the dolphin. As sounds can travel quite a distance in the water,
dolphins are capable to detect dangers or food which is even out of
sight.This technique is used by
humans in radars or sonars where some kind of wave is emitted and the bounced
back wave is detected and processed.

Dolphin Sophisticated Senses

Imagine a world of darkness and sudden light, a
world in which you can move not only side to side but up and down as well, a
world without a bottom to it but instead a top to which you must periodically
rise. And then imagine a world in which your hearing tells you as much about
where you are and what’s around you as your eyes do, and often more.

This is the world a dolphin lives in. Though
dolphins have all the same senses we do – sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound
– they don’t work the same way. And they have an additional sense of
echolocation. It’s also been postulated that they can orient themselves to
magnetic fields.

Dolphin
SightDolphins have
surprisingly good vision, able to see a fish in a trainer’s hand well enough to
snatch it from the hand without harming the trainer. They have binocular vision
to a certain degree, like a human does. They don’t have great color vision,
though; it’s comparable to a severely color-blind person. And why would they
need it when they live most of their lives well underwater?

Some dolphin behaviors associated with their vision
indicate high specialization of the two sides of the brain, which is associated
with intelligence. For instance, dolphins tend to swim in a counterclockwise
direction in tanks. And when presented with new visual stimulation, like new
people, they tend to look at them with their right eyes.

Dolphin Hearing and
Echolocation

More important to a dolphin than sight,
however, is dolphin hearing. Blindfolded dolphins have been found to have no
trouble locating surprisingly small items in their tanks by using
echolocation.

Whaling ships have
long known how sensitive the hearing of any cetacean is. They always went as
silent as they could when stalking whales; any sound in the water could lead to
loss of their catch. Dolphins are no different from whales in this respect.
Though their echolocation sounds don’t seem all that loud to a human, they can
hear the bounced-back sounds from tiny objects as far off as 120
yards.

Dolphins may have two hearing
sense organs. The melon of a dolphin (you can see this – it’s the big off-center
lump on their foreheads) focuses their echolocation sounds, and may have just as
much to do with collecting the sounds bounced back from echolocated objects.
They do also have regular ears, and their ability to hear is among the best in
the mammalian world.

Other Dolphin
Senses

Dolphins are very sensory, and will seek out
touch from other dolphins as well as from humans. They do not, however, have
strong senses of smell or taste. Their primary sensory input comes from
sound.

It’s possible that dolphins also can sense
magnetic fields well enough to use the earth’s magnetism to navigate, although
this is a poorly-researched area.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Hi, I Have Recently Joined A Site Called "Google+." I Would Like To Reccomend It To ALL Gmail Users. It Is Very Neat, You Can Add Photos,Videos, Posts, & More!! I Encourage You To Join!!!
It Is Quite The Experience!!!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

I read a book in history this week, it’s about Pompeii. Pompeii is a City in Italy. In Pompeii there was an eruption of a volcano, this volcano is called: “Mount Vesuvius.” Mount Vesuvius is just a short distance from Pompeii. Since an eruption around 79 A.D. There has been several more eruption’s.

Although everyone of the Villa’s in Pompeii are completely covered with hard molten lava, the archeologists have found so many artifacts, of the buried city of Pompeii’s culture. I will tell you a little bit about the culture in Pompeii. Here are just a few of the things.

In Pompeii, People wear animal skins, Cloth And Leather. They take bath’s at a “Bath House.” In the Bath House They Have a “Excersizing Area, A Massage Room, Some Bathing pool’s, A steam bath, And a cold bath. They grow the BEST grape’s for wine people say, because of the extra fertile ground. If you are wondering why I said extra fertile, I mean The ashes from the Erupted Volcano, made the ground fertile.

They also, have a marketplace, but there marketplace wasn’t anything like wal-mart. In there marketplace, they sell Fish, Bread, Perfumes, Wine, & a fish sauce( That they say had a little odor). The archeologists said when they went to a villa & found some fish sauce, that you could still smell the fish sauce after about 1700 years.

There is a Incident, which I found very funny. In this incident, a priest had been eating his lunch when the volcano erupted, & the archeologists found his lunch, his lunch consisted of some eggs and a cup. The cup is believed to have had some sort of wine in it. They almost did not believe that the egg’s had lasted so long, but the archeologists said the only way that they survived is because they had become petrified as stone. All in all there culture & lifestyle is very interesting, & would be neat to see.

Today you can visit the city, where, the archeologists have uncovered & solved many mysteries

Saturday, August 13, 2011

The Week, Has Been Good, Tommorow is church, Which I Can Not wait For, Yay!!!!!!!
Hope Everyone else has had a great day, I have.
Wouldn't you if you had 3 cousin's over
Anyway, Have A Blessed Day Tommorow,
Sincerely,(:Sarah:)

Friday, August 12, 2011

Hi, sorry I haven't been on in a while, but it was the summer, & I'm really usually really busy during the summer, & you guessed it, that is exactly what happened, & "Matthew's Mysterious Blog" Is Going To Be Moved, He Has Not Made A New Blog Yet, But He is going to make a new one soon, Here is why he Has to move to a new blog-->
He Has To Move too A new Blog Because Me, His Sweet Old Sister decided to get o his laptop, & Accidently Forget He was logged in not me, so I wanted to seee his gmail profile, & I did not know that his Profile was yet to be made, So Everything that he signed up for with His Gmail was deleted, But He Has A new Gmail now, & is Going to make a Blog soon, & Yes, I have learned my Lesson.
Anyway Other than that mishap we have been good, Did I mention That My Brother Had His Appendix removed this summer, While He Was At his very First Youth Camp.
I've been doing pretty good, I Did not have any surgery's, Thank You Lord
So What Have Ya'll Been Up To?

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Well The past two weeks have been ok, the thing I don't care for is that I do pretty much everything my

Brother, Matthew's supposed to do, because he had his appendix removed, friday night two weeks ago.
That is the one of many reasons why I have not updated my blog in so long, but I will try to from now on.

My Brother has to wait three weeks before doing any health & fitness, moving alote, weight lifting, in less words NO EXERCISING ALOTE ( which is hard for him). But gladly next Friday he will be able to do more than he's been doing ( I'm glad, because that means less work for me .)

Well I guess thats pretty much it,
Will put more on later,
The Writer Of A Lifetime
( Sarah G. )

Thursday, May 26, 2011

I can Not wait, next week we are going on a trip in Northern Alabama, I'm excited about that, but what is cool is that my big brother bought some guitar strings, & it had a code to win something with, & he put the code in, & he won the 1st prize, so he is going on a trip to London England, the same week were going to Northern Alabama!!!!!!!!

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Hi., Guess What, thats Right you guessed it, I'm doing a Tornado Poster!!!!
The reason I'm doing it is my mom thought it would be good to do it, because of the tornado in northern alabama, but we are to put facts,pictures about different kinds and much more.

Now that I've covered that lets talk about why I haven't been on my blog in awhile, well heres why
Easter,Mothers Day,Homecoming at My church, & I've just been Plain Busy.
Well I'll put more on later,& until then
see ya,
The Writer(Sarah)

Monday, April 25, 2011

Hi. Just wanted to give an update on my blog so here it is.
Spring Break is over & I'm back... to school!!!!
Today we did:MathCursive WritingWilliam ShakespeareWe Did all of that & some more.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I Walked this morning, for two miles, can you believe it two miles!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know, & I lost ONE pound.Can't wait until tomorrow, because we will wake up early & GO WALKING AGAIN, Yay Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well I guess thats it for now,
Until next time my friend, Until next time.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Hi, I can not wait, Do you know why?.... Thats right i'm going to the beach for Spring Break.
It's going to be fun.
I will take pictures of different things at the beach.
Then will post it on here, with a little bit of information.